Crime Statistics for Paulsgrove, Portsmouth, City of Portsmouth, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Paulsgrove in August 2024. There were a total of 185 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Violent Crime, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Although violent crime represents the largest incidents category in Paulsgrove, this category is usually the largest in any urban area. This is partly because 'Violent Crime' covers so many offences compared to say Burglary

Crime Category	Incidents
Violent Crime	86
Anti Social Behaviour	27
Public Order	19
Criminal Damage Arson	15
Shoplifting	10
Burglary	9
Other Theft	6
Vehicle Crime	5
Other Crime	2
Theft From The Person	2
Bicycle Theft	2
Robbery	1
Possession Of Weapons	1
All Crime	185

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Paulsgrove. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.

Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Paulsgrove

We've taken the ten nearest places to Paulsgrove and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Paulsgrove has more crime than other surrounding areas.

Location	Crime Incidents
Drayton (2.56 miles)	321
Cosham (1.96 miles)	305
Highbury (2.24 miles)	268
Wallington (3.1 miles)	193
Paulsgrove	185
Portchester (1.39 miles)	58
Tipner (1.86 miles)	41
Southwick (1.39 miles)	14
Furzeley Corner (2.78 miles)	4
Boarhunt (2.24 miles)	0

Where are the most violent places near Paulsgrove?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Paulsgrove and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

Location	Violent Incidents
Drayton	154
Cosham	130
Highbury	98
Paulsgrove	86
Wallington	81
Portchester	38
Tipner	16
Southwick	6
Furzeley Corner	2
Boarhunt	0

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Paulsgrove?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Paulsgrove to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Paulsgrove compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Paulsgrove and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Paulsgrove is ranked #2.

#	Ward	Score
1	Nelson	88
2	Paulsgrove	75
3	Bridgemary South	72
4	Hilsea	70
5	Cosham	61
6	Bridgemary North	58
7	Fareham East	51
8	Copnor	50
9	Purbrook	40
10	Portchester East	38
11	Portchester West	18

Which road in Paulsgrove has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Paulsgrove with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.